But the problem is not only, and not even primarily, one of rushed perception: the “social acceleration” he’s experiencing changes him morally. He feels that he is “forced to change the order of [his] moral affections, forced to attribute a value to fantasies, and impose silence on nature and reason.” The result, he says, is: “I drift from whim to whim, and my tastes being constantly enslaved to opinion, I cannot a single day be sure what I will love the next.”
